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Olympian Claire Donahue demonstrates NGB Butterfly drill.
Three Strokes of NGB:
1st Stroke – N – “not” breathing
2nd Stroke – G – keeping your “goggles” just above the water line
3rd Stroke – B – meaning “breathe” on the last stroke
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What if one breaths to the side?
Concerned Citizen – side-breathing butterfliers need help that we cannot provide. I suggest you speak with your primary care physician about that issue (ha, ha, just kidding, Mel!)
If you’re a side breather, then this drill won’t be a great one for you. One of the advantages to the side-breath butterfly is that the natural tendency to lift one’s chest out of the water on a breath (which is what this drill is trying to correct) isn’t there. Side-breathers should work more on drills that would help keep them balanced, because the tendency there would be to roll into a sort of at-an-angle butterfly stroke.